OSAKA, Japan—Global telecommunications providerKDDI plans to invest $270 million(28 billion yen) to building two new Telehouse data centers,Telehousee Osaka 2, and TelehouseTokyo Tama 3, scheduled to open inAugust 2015 and February 2016respectively. These additional facilities will take the totalamount of global Telehouse data center space to approximately4.0 million square feet, provided by 46sites across 13 countries/territories and24 major cities.

Both Osaka and Tokyo facilities will offer high-densitycolocation services enabling the hosting of heavy load ITinfrastructure. The data centers will meet the growing demand forhousing private enterprise clouds, along with public cloud serviceproviders, online and media content companies. The facilities aredesigned to Tier 3+ data center standards inredundancy and uptime, and will be insusceptible to earthquakes bya long-period absorption structure, reflecting the high qualityGlobal Telehouse specifications. In addition, KDDI can provide acombined solution by providing direct access to the KDDI globalnetwork along with the data center.

Telehouse Osaka 2, located in the center of Osaka city, willoffer 700 racks of tenancy space with up to 30kVA(designed) per rack. The technical and operations room will besituated above second floor avoiding the risk of potentialflooding. Osaka 2 can be used as a disasterrecovery and back-up site for the Tokyo data centers.